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Re: Very true

Posted by Jo on January 21, 2005 at 16:35:07

In Reply to: Very true posted by Reaction on January 21, 2005 at 09:47:48:

You wrote:
However, the lying flies were already there for all to see."
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No. I only heard bits and pieces about Berg, there was no "royal family" at the time, not until around 72 or 73, and I certainly did not know what was going on at top levels. What is wrong with realistically describing the history of the family? Had I known, seen or understood all this stuff I would have run the other way!
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"We were young, naive and inexpert but we also had eyes and a mind. The roots were there and all of us at that time helped."
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What a crock. I was young and manipulated and used. By the time my eyes opened I had a filter installed from the party line as to how to interpret everything.
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"The family may not recognize us as being such an important part but without us they would not have anything now."
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Are you still in? Were you a leader that raped women or molested kids? If so, did you do it because you were attracted to sexploitation of members and that is what drew you in? If so. I agree that without you, they would have nothing now.
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Good for us that we left them to cook in their own sins. But now it is a good time to undo all of that with the truth.
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If you want the truth to be known tell ALL OF IT. And tell it accurately. My comment addresses the fallacious idea that sex was what the family used from the beginning to attract the "free sex" generation when in FACT, early members were drawn by something quite different. Hand holding and dating were not even allowed. People were put together often in unwanted "betrovals". Berg was about control. He taught his core leaders at the time the same. But sex was NOT the attractant for the earliest members, the original exploited youth.
Are you saying what I have said here and in my original post you responded to is not true? Why is there such a resistance to being historically correct?